“Ten minutes to Six, I think it was, the USS Texas opened fire on the beach and that was the beginning of the battle for us.” Robert C. Hunt On the 6th of June 1944, the Western Allies; the United States, Britain, and Canada initiated Operation Overlord, the invasion of German-occupied Northern France. The combined assault consisted of the largest Armada ever assembled, over 7000 allied ships and approximately 160,000 soldiers, and tens of thousands of paratroopers dropped behind the beaches and fortifications. Connecticut Veteran, Corporal Robert C Hunt was one of the many soldiers who waded ashore in the first hours of the invasion. Hunt was part of the…